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ROS packages for building wide intelligence project, University of Texas at Austin
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Verify lab user/group manipulation instructions + Easier password changes. #36

Closed piyushk closed 9 years ago

piyushk commented 9 years ago

I've updated http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~larg/bwi/index.php/Manipulating_users_and_groups with instructions for manipulating users and group. @joq, can you test these when you get some free time?

To make it easier for changing passwords:

jack-oquin commented 9 years ago

Sounds good. I'll try it tomorrow.

jack-oquin commented 9 years ago

I wonder if we should just put everyone in the bwi primary group?

jack-oquin commented 9 years ago

I cleaned up the PHP LDAP admin sections a little. We probably want to leave that in as an alternative method.

jack-oquin commented 9 years ago

I tried to create the example user account:

sudo /home/bwilab/scripts/bwiuseradd fri abc "ABC DEF" fri

The operation appeared to work, but I was unable to login with it using the documented default password.

The instructions do not make it clear that all users must be added to group dialout. Adding that user to the group did work, but I was unable to verify it by logging in.

Deleting the user worked, and removed it from auto.home, but not from dialout.

Deleting it from the group this way did not work, either:

/home/bwilab/scripts/bwideluserfromgroup dialout abc
jack-oquin commented 9 years ago

After some delay, abc did disappear from the dialout group. Those ugly time-to-live problems seem to happen even when using the refresh button on the phpLDAPadmin screen.

piyushk commented 9 years ago

I've made the following changes to the scripts:

  1. bwiuseradd automatically adds a user to the group dialout.
  2. Changed bwi and fri template passwords to the documented one.
  3. bwiuserdel now deletes a user from all groups.

These changes should fix aforementioned issues you pointed out.

piyushk commented 9 years ago

I've also created a convenience wrapper around the password change script and documented it here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~larg/bwi/index.php/Updating_Your_Lab_Password

jack-oquin commented 9 years ago

The scripts work OK now, I was able to create "def", login, verify group membership, and then delete that user.

The user "abc" seems to exist already and has a different password. I assume that's left around from earlier testing.

:+1: LGTM